Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 74 52
Rank change year-on-year -39 -22 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,283 1,810 3,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 3.70% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 4.00% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 865 1,059 2,692
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,590 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £86,563
90th Percentile £121,500 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,175 45,213 65,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.32% 92.48% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 22,205 50,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,175 £77,500 +3.33% 710
London +6 659 £87,500 +2.94% 327
Work from Home -20 566 £75,000 +4.18% 417
UK excluding London -98 527 £70,000 +2.94% 467
North of England -43 239 £70,000 - 142
North West -29 120 £67,500 - 82
Yorkshire -36 96 £75,000 +4.18% 42
South East -122 95 £75,000 +11.11% 161
South West -76 62 £66,250 -3.32% 52
Midlands -48 59 £67,750 +4.23% 52
East of England -9 35 £67,500 +17.39% 25
West Midlands -7 34 £68,750 -1.79% 36
Scotland -80 28 £60,000 -20.00% 28
North East -10 23 £68,750 +30.95% 18
East Midlands -55 23 £67,750 +4.23% 15
Wales -10 8 £54,185 +22.19% 11
Northern Ireland -30 5 £62,500 +16.28% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.18%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (1.87%) Apache
4 21 (1.64%) Confluence
5 13 (1.01%) JBoss
5 13 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.78%) CMS
8 7 (0.55%) Appian
8 7 (0.55%) IIS
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Liferay
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.078%) Camunda
12 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.33%) Maya
2 16 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.16%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.70%) Endur
3 6 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.47%) SAP FS
4 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.078%) Actimize
6 1 (0.078%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.078%) Quorum
6 1 (0.078%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.078%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 712 (55.49%) AWS
2 592 (46.14%) Azure
3 261 (20.34%) GCP
4 230 (17.93%) Serverless
5 173 (13.48%) SaaS
6 124 (9.66%) GitHub
7 112 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (7.48%) Amazon S3
9 96 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
11 63 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
11 63 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 56 (4.36%) PaaS
13 54 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (3.04%) OpenShift
17 37 (2.88%) IaaS
17 37 (2.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.56%) Broadband
2 13 (1.01%) HTTP
3 9 (0.70%) AMQP
4 6 (0.47%) Internet
5 5 (0.39%) Network Security
6 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.31%) MQTT
6 4 (0.31%) SNMP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.23%) DHCP
7 3 (0.23%) DNS
7 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.16%) Firewall
8 2 (0.16%) LTE
8 2 (0.16%) SSL
9 1 (0.078%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.078%) TCAP
9 1 (0.078%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (13.80%) NoSQL
2 165 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
3 139 (10.83%) MongoDB
4 123 (9.59%) SQL Server
5 65 (5.07%) DynamoDB
6 62 (4.83%) Relational Database
7 60 (4.68%) MySQL
8 50 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 35 (2.73%) Redis
10 30 (2.34%) Big Data
11 24 (1.87%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.79%) RDBMS
13 22 (1.71%) Power BI
14 21 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
15 17 (1.33%) Tableau
16 14 (1.09%) DB2
17 12 (0.94%) Pinecone
18 10 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 165 (12.86%) Git
2 117 (9.12%) Jenkins
3 69 (5.38%) GitLab
4 55 (4.29%) JIRA
5 51 (3.98%) TeamCity
6 39 (3.04%) JUnit
7 38 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.81%) Selenium
9 26 (2.03%) Cypress.io
10 23 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 22 (1.71%) CircleCI
11 22 (1.71%) Mockito
12 19 (1.48%) JMeter
12 19 (1.48%) Maven
13 16 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.86%) Postman
15 10 (0.78%) Vite
16 9 (0.70%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.62%) git-flow
17 8 (0.62%) LoadRunner
General
1 388 (30.24%) Finance
2 376 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 150 (11.69%) Banking
4 114 (8.89%) Law
5 100 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 69 (5.38%) Retail
8 61 (4.75%) Financial Institution
9 56 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 45 (3.51%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.43%) Back Office
12 37 (2.88%) Games
13 26 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.79%) Billing
14 23 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.56%) French Language
16 19 (1.48%) Dutch Language
16 19 (1.48%) Legal
17 18 (1.40%) Advertising
18 12 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 427 (33.28%) Developer
2 330 (25.72%) Senior
3 255 (19.88%) Software Engineer
4 222 (17.30%) Architect
5 165 (12.86%) Lead
6 117 (9.12%) Senior Developer
7 108 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (8.26%) Java Developer
9 105 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 88 (6.86%) Java Engineer
10 88 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 87 (6.78%) .NET Developer
12 53 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
13 50 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 49 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
16 46 (3.59%) Software Developer
17 44 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
18 41 (3.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 38 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (24.01%) React
2 301 (23.46%) .NET
3 259 (20.19%) RESTful
4 231 (18.00%) Spring
5 210 (16.37%) REST
6 204 (15.90%) Spring Boot
7 194 (15.12%) Kafka
8 185 (14.42%) Node.js
9 131 (10.21%) AngularJS
10 107 (8.34%) .NET Core
11 81 (6.31%) HTML
12 72 (5.61%) .NET Framework
13 64 (4.99%) RabbitMQ
14 63 (4.91%) ASP.NET
15 62 (4.83%) CSS
16 61 (4.75%) gRPC
17 60 (4.68%) Middleware
18 54 (4.21%) ASP.NET Web API
19 48 (3.74%) Django
19 48 (3.74%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 360 (28.06%) Cloud Native
2 204 (15.90%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (10.05%) Enterprise Software
4 104 (8.11%) Product Ownership
5 54 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.96%) Data Structures
8 34 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.57%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 27 (2.10%) Blockchain
12 26 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.95%) AI Agents
14 20 (1.56%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 18 (1.40%) Over-the-Top Content
15 18 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
16 14 (1.09%) IoT
16 14 (1.09%) Management Information System
17 13 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.44%) Linux
2 21 (1.64%) Windows
3 19 (1.48%) Android
4 10 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.16%) Unix
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.078%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (48.25%) CI/CD
2 580 (45.21%) Agile
3 513 (39.98%) DevOps
4 472 (36.79%) Software Engineering
5 338 (26.34%) Containerisation
6 305 (23.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (22.29%) Mentoring
8 275 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 248 (19.33%) AI
10 238 (18.55%) Event-Driven
11 226 (17.61%) Test Automation
12 224 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 208 (16.21%) Computer Science
14 160 (12.47%) Scrum
15 157 (12.24%) TDD
16 154 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 151 (11.77%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (11.38%) Roadmaps
19 145 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
20 139 (10.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 458 (35.70%) Java
2 311 (24.24%) Python
3 285 (22.21%) SQL
4 270 (21.04%) C#
5 264 (20.58%) JavaScript
6 228 (17.77%) TypeScript
7 86 (6.70%) Go
8 30 (2.34%) PHP
9 28 (2.18%) PL/SQL
10 27 (2.10%) Bash
10 27 (2.10%) C++
10 27 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.03%) C
12 25 (1.95%) Scala
13 21 (1.64%) Ruby
14 19 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.17%) Rust
16 13 (1.01%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.78%) Bicep
18 6 (0.47%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 218 (16.99%) Degree
2 146 (11.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (8.50%) Security Cleared
4 77 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 70 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 53 (4.13%) Master's Degree
7 45 (3.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 44 (3.43%) Azure Certification
9 39 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (1.01%) CISSP
13 10 (0.78%) CISM
14 9 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.70%) PMP
15 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.16%) QA
2 28 (2.18%) PCI DSS
3 27 (2.10%) GDPR
4 24 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.94%) NIST
7 11 (0.86%) NCSC
8 10 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.62%) EMIR
9 8 (0.62%) IFRS
10 7 (0.55%) SLA
11 6 (0.47%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 6 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.39%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.39%) SEPA
13 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.23%) WCAG
15 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 386 (30.09%) Docker
2 16 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 397 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 227 (17.69%) Terraform
3 76 (5.92%) Grafana
4 55 (4.29%) Ansible
5 28 (2.18%) Kibana
5 28 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.09%) Argo
8 8 (0.62%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.62%) Puppet
9 4 (0.31%) Cilium
9 4 (0.31%) Istio
9 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.16%) Nagios
11 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 165 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.75%) Oracle
3 45 (3.51%) Google
4 19 (1.48%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.40%) Typelevel
6 17 (1.33%) SAP
7 16 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.25%) Guidewire
7 16 (1.25%) Splunk
8 15 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
8 15 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.09%) Software AG
10 13 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 12 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.78%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.78%) IBM
13 9 (0.70%) Databricks